As an HR practice, we support a number of SMEs and charities. The good news is that I won’t generally be looking after you on a day-to-day basis. I tend to be a bit of a bottleneck in the business because I’m doing so much, but I’ve got a team of amazing HR advisors. They’re […] (Read more)

  The way in which we work with clients will vary depending on what they need. During our initial discussion, we’ll establish exactly what’s needed. The three main options that are available are ad hoc support retained support, or fully outsourced support. Ad hoc Support With ad hoc, it’s like a pay-as-you-go contract. You sign […] (Read more)

We find that a lot of clients come to us and there’s already somebody in the organisation that does HR to a greater or lesser extent. Sometimes it’s the PA to the Managing Director. Sometimes it’s the finance director. Sometimes it’s the managing director’s wife. We often work with those people to give them the […] (Read more)

  The type of HR support that you need in your business is very much going to depend on where you are now and what sort of internal resources you have available. It will also depend on whether you want to keep things in house or whether you want to outsource everything completely. For every […] (Read more)

One of the biggest questions prospective clients have for us is how much is it going to cost? At the end of the day, you’ve got a budget. Yes, you need the job doing, but there is a cost associated with that. In this video, Donna shares some of the elements that make up the […] (Read more)

My name is Saul Conway and I’m Managing Director of AS Financial and Mortgage Advisory Service. I’ve been using DOHR for nearly 15 years. And that was before this business, and this iteration of the business. So they still look after another business that I helped found and used to run. So before I brought […] (Read more)

I’m Barry Kaye, Chief Operating Officer, AKA chief of staff at Telcoswitch Group. So I joined Telcoswitch about two and a half years ago looking for an HR partner and was introduced to Donna. We had a good conversation. She came to visit, decided that we were right for each other. The size of my […] (Read more)

What HR Support you need, what HR support you want and what HR support you can afford should all be the same thing, but the reality is that very often, they are not. Determining your need for HR Support (see Do I need HR?) is one thing; deciding how you get that support into your […] (Read more)

From the time that a business takes on its first employee, it needs HR. It will be informal at first and will be the business owner managing their employee, but even from day 1, there are legal obligations which a company owner is responsible for. When a company takes on its first employee, the 5 […] (Read more)

HR is the commonly used name for Human Resources. In the past, it has also been referred to as Personnel, Staff Welfare or Human Capital Management. The need for ‘personnel management’ started during the industrial revolution when social reformers such as Lord Shaftesbury started to exert pressure on employers with poor employment conditions. HR has […] (Read more)